Improvement in pin-packages



J'. H. BRONSON. PIN-PACKAGE.

Patented Feb. zo, 18.77.

No. 187,592Q

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'Uivrrnn Sterns EATENT @FFIGE J. HOBART BRONSON, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE OAKVILLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

i IMPROVEMENT IN PIN-PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,592, dated February 20,1877; application led September 23, 1876.

To all whom Iit may concern:

Beit known that I, J. HOBART BRoNsoN, of Waterbury, in the count-y of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new Improvementlin Pin-Packages, and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective View of the package open 5 Fig. 2, a transverse section, full size; and in Figs. 3 and 4, the method of sticking the pins.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of packages of pins, the object being to offer in a single package several sizes of pins, any of which may be conveniently taken from the package.

The invention consists in a box and cover inclined upon the upper side from the back to the front, with a succession of folds ot' paper, with pins stuck therein, the folds relatively to each other being such that the heads of successive rows are above the row in frontthat is, the pins increasing in length toward the rear-and so that by such successive rise the pins may be easily removed from the package, as more fully hereinafter described. The box is made from pasteboard, or any suitable material, the front al lower than the back b, so that when the cover c is open the surface of the edge of the .box will be inclined toward the front, the cover c being hinged to the back, and so as to close the box, in the usual manner for such boxes.

The pins are stuck in sections upon a sheet in rows, in substantially the manner described in the patent granted to C. O. Crosby December 2, 1851--that is to say, as seen in Fig. 3,so that one row may be readily folded back again st the next preceding row, as seen in Fig. 4. y These are arranged in sections, with the shorter pins in the front or lower edge of the box, the pins A gradually increasing in length, the longest at the rear of the box, successive sections of such foldsvbeng placed within the box until itis filled, which then presents a surface of rows of heads of pins, as seen in Fig. l. This incline allows the person desiring the pin to easily raise from its row the pin required, and the package, as a whole, is a neat and desirable form for a dressing-case or other place where pins `are desired, and also is protected from dust, which would naturally settle upon the folds of the paper.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming the arrangement of pins in a package where the heads of all will be exposed, as such I am aware is not new,

I claim- As an article of manufacture, the hereindescribed pin-package, consisting of the box with the inclined cover, and the pins stuck in papers so as to present the heads above the folded edge of the paper, the saidpaper with the pins therein arranged within the said box `in successive rows, and each row elevated above the next preceding, substantially as described.

J. HOB ART BRONSON.

Witnesses:

N. H. PERRY, A. A. STONE. 

